warrant
\wa.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“warrant” is uncommon French (frequency #69,530 among 27,995 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,530
- frequency rank, French
- 27,995
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Récépissé délivré aux commerçants, lorsqu’ils déposent des marchandises dans un entrepôt, et qui constate la valeur de ces marchandises, pour but de garantie financière sur ce bien.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | warrant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wa.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “warrant” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
warrant is uncommon French at frequency #69,530 among 27,995 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \wa.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for warrant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is warrant, spelled W-A-R-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Récépissé délivré aux commerçants, lorsqu’ils déposent des marchandises dans un entrepôt, et qui constate la valeur de ces marchandises, pour but de garantie financière sur ce bien.
- 2Contrat transférable qui donne à son détenteur le droit, et non l’obligation, d’acheter ou de vendre une quantité donnée d’un actif spécifique, à un prix déterminé d’avance, à la date d’échéance du contrat.
- 3Gage de garantie.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “warrant”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is W-A-R-R-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \wa.ʁɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.